An on the spot blog written by Alasdair Meldrum during a recent wander in Glasgow’s City Centre. I had a wee wander up Sauchiehall Street at the weekend, one of the main streets in Glasgow city centre. My mind drifted back to late 80’s when I arrived in Glasgow for my first year at …
We have a Rubbish Talk first this week – Simon Glen is our first guest who purposely entered the waste industry!! Listen here to our great chat with Simon where he explains how he went from an economics, philosophy and social science degree to a Masters in Waste Management and never looked back. With a …
Against all odds we have this week’s episode with Ruth Innes! Some technical issues caused us to nearly lose the recording, but we are glad to share our really insightful chat with Ruth. We talk all about Ruth’s route to working in waste management, the important role of NHS Scotland Assure and how they are …
We sat down with CEO of Cireco, Robin Baird to discuss his own journey into the waste and resource management industry and he shares his current objectives for his role at Cireco. Robin shares a lot of great advice for anyone starting out in their career and what we think is some great life advice! …
In episode 2 of Rubbish Talk we discussed briefly the growing trend towards putting flowers, wreaths and mementos on public seats. Alasdair expressed the view that it is great that people donate benches (usually in memory of a loved one) for use in public spaces. However he was strongly of the opinion that that did …
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Robin Stevenson, Managing Director at Hamilton Waste & Recycling shared his thoughts on the Deposit Return Scheme in Scotland. Scotland’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). We must find better ways of working together to ensure we don’t end up with a system that isn’t fit for purpose, or worse still is damaging to the way …
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We had a really interesting chat with Laura Tainsh from Davidson Chalmers Stewart. Laura is the lead partner in the Environmental & Waste Team at DCS and discusses her career as an environmental lawyer. We chatted about everything from learning on the job, first visits to landfill sites and how to influence your friends and …
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We have been seeing a roll out of the new waste management licence templates from SEPA (now called Waste Management Permit). It is good to see a change from the pages of conditions on the previous waste management licences but has this gone too far the other way? The ones we have seen have …
Thoughts on new Waste Management Licences (WML) from SEPA Read More »
We sit down with Amanda to talk about her career in Health & Safety and how she ended up working in the waste sector. She shares her highs and lows of her career journey and shares her knowledge on plastics recycling and how we can all create less waste! Listen to Amanda’s episode on Apple …
Episode 3: Amanda Stewart SHEQ Manager at WRC Recycling Read More »
The Scottish Government has published the second report of its incineration review, the remit of this one is a review of options to decarbonise Scotland’s residual waste infrastructure. https://www.gov.scot/publications/stop-sort-burn-bury-independent-review-role-incineration-waste-hierarchy-scotland-second-report-decarbonisation-residual-waste-infrastructure-scotland/documents/ A quick summary; Colin Church was asked to consider: What does the current carbon impact of disposal of waste look like? What are the possible …
